RE: Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh absolutely - that was my big issue to get round myself - no longer
being
aware of exactly what drive held what ... I've been manually
"fettling" my
storage for years to the point of anally moving terabytes of data so that
my
movies files were always stored alphabetically sorted across all the movie
drives (20+ of them on the old Mac Mini based server I had).

I was using shared drives on an XP machine but XP doesn't handle being used
as a server very well plus I was running out of drive letters and having my
movies spread across over half a dozen network shares was a pain too. :-D

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of noughtomate
> Sent: 16 December 2008 10:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!
>
> Phil,
>
> Hence why I said what I said in this thread :
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/message/153845
>
> Please don't take this as rubbing your face in it - I learned the
> hardway.
>
> I've never trusted WHS, especially given the number of concerns
> raised on Wegotserved.
>
> If anything manipulates your data so that you don't know where it
> resides, then you need to question how recoverable it will be. This
> is even more so if you experience disk failure and need to pay for a
> service to recover the data.
>
> If purchasing Server 2008 implies a further cost, then try using
> Shared Drives without the WHS interface.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Balraj
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Jamie Bennett"
<jamie.bennett@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Rob Iles <rob.iles@...>
wrote:
> > > Probably the last thing on your mind - - but WHEN you get it
> sorted, I'd be
> > > interested to know how - I'm getting ready for a WHS setup
at
> home, and this
> > > is the 1st horror story I've come across.
> >
> > Can I be the first to say Ubuntu Server Edition with NFS?
> >
> > (I'll get my coat)
> >
> > > R.
> >
> > Jamie
> >
>
>
>
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